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SportsAFP NewsFive great Lester Piggott rides
AFP Sport picks out five great rides by legendary jockey Lester Piggott who died on Sunday aged 86:
SportsAFP NewsUnseeded Italian Trevisan reaches French Open quarter-finals
Italian Martina Trevisan booked her place in the French Open quarter-finals on Sunday, edging out Aliaksandra Sasnovich in straight sets.
SportsAFP NewsPiggott - The 'Long Fellow' who felt the long arm of the law
Lester Piggott who died on Sunday aged 86 is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever jockeys and certainly the greatest to be a guest at Her Majesty's Pleasure.
SportsAFP NewsRecord-breaking Derby winning jockey Lester Piggott dies
Legendary flat race jockey Lester Piggott who rode a record nine Epsom Derby winners has died aged 86 his son-in-law said on Sunday.
SportsAFP NewsZheng Qinwen: Five things to know about China's new tennis sensation
Teenager Zheng Qinwen has lit up the French Open as the newest star to emerge from China, where the coronavirus pandemic and the Peng Shuai scandal has put top-level tennis on hold for more than two years.
SportsAFP NewsLegendary jockey Lester Piggott dies aged 86
Legendary flat race jockey Lester Piggott who rode a record nine Epsom Derby winners has died aged 86 his son-in-law said on Sunday.
SportsAFP NewsO'Gara trumps Sexton in Euro final subplot
Ronan O'Gara had the last laugh as the former Ireland fly-half coached La Rochelle to European Champions Cup victory over a Leinster side skippered by his successor Johnny Sexton.
SportsAFP NewsKoroibete stars in end to stop-start Japanese rugby season
Marika Koroibete led Saitama Wild Knights to the Japanese club rugby union title on Sunday as the ambitious rebranded league ended a stop-start debut season marred by coronavirus outbreaks.
SportsAFP NewsFootball fans allowed for China's Covid-delayed kick-off
Fans will be allowed in when the coronavirus-delayed Chinese Super League season kicks off on Friday despite the country's strict Covid controls, state media reported.
SportsAFP NewsDominant Blues end on a high as Brumbies stunned by Moana Pasifika
A second-string Auckland Blues edged NSW Waratahs with a last-gasp drop goal to extend their win streak to 13 as Moana Pasifika shocked the ACT Brumbies in the final round of the regular Super Rugby Pacific season.
NewsAFP NewsWNBA players step up calls for Griner's release
WNBA players and their union leaders stepped up their calls for Brittney Griner's release from prison in Russia on Saturday, the 100th day of the US basketball star's detention.
SportsAFP NewsVinicius strikes as Real Madrid beat Liverpool in Champions League final
Vinicius Junior scored the only goal of the game as Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1-0 in Saturday's Champions League final in Paris to become kings of Europe for a record-extending 14th time after a night marred by problems outside the ground that led to the kick-off being delayed by over half an hour.
SportsAFP NewsNo.1 Scheffler seizes PGA Colonial lead with closing birdie
Top-ranked Masters champion Scottie Scheffler closed with a 30-foot birdie putt to seize a two-stroke lead after Saturday's wind-whipped third round of the US PGA Charles Schwab Challenge.
SportsAFP News'I can't do much more' to win Ballon d'Or - Benzema
Karim Benzema admitted he had done all he could with Real Madrid this season to make himself favourite for the Ballon d'Or after helping the Spanish giants beat Liverpool 1-0 in Saturday's Champions League final in Paris.
SportsAFP NewsBromell, Thompson-Herah bag 100m wins Eugene
Trayvon Bromell and Elaine Thompson-Herah grabbed 100m Diamond League victories Saturday in Eugene, where eight world-leading performances highlighted the action at Hayward Field.
SportsAFP NewsFamilies of Liverpool staff caught up in Champions League final chaos - Klopp
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said the families of his squad and staff were caught up in the chaotic scenes outside the Stade de France that led to the kick-off of Saturday's Champions League final being delayed.
SportsAFP News'Record man' Ancelotti puts his landmark down to luck
Carlo Ancelotti typically played down becoming the first manager to win four European Cups after Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1-0 in Paris on Saturday saying luck had a part to play before acknowledging "I am a record man".
NewsAFP NewsQuestions for Paris after Champions League 'fiasco'
French authorities and UEFA faced questions Sunday over the handling of the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid in Paris which descended into scenes of chaos before kick-off as English fans struggled to enter the stadium.
SportsAFP NewsAncelotti keeps calm amid the storm to make Real Madrid champions again
Real Madrid are champions of Europe for a record-extending 14th time after Carlo Ancelotti's side beat Liverpool 1-0 in Paris on Saturday, but rarely have the Spanish champions taken a more chaotic road to glory.
SportsAFP NewsNew Zealand's Williamson out for a duck in last innings before England opener
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson was out for a duck on Saturday in what will be his only innings of the tour before next week's first Test against England at Lord's.
SportsAFP NewsHamilton hoping for Monaco rain and a change of luck
Lewis Hamilton said he is hoping for rain and a change of luck in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix after qualifying eighth for Mercedes.
SportsAFP NewsThompson-Herah wins Eugene 100m in 10.79sec
Reigning Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah won the women's 100m in 10.79 seconds at the Eugene Diamond League meeting on Saturday, holding off rising US star Sha'Carri Richardson on the same track that will host the athletics World Championships in July.
SportsAssociated PressGame 7: Heat, Celtics set to finally decide East champion
Erik Spoelstra didn’t even have to finish the sentence. The Miami Heat coach was speaking in the locker room after a season-extending win in Boston, players and staff standing around him in a semicircle. It’ll be the second Game 7 between the teams; the other was in 2012, when the Heat topped the Celtics 101-88 to win that year’s East title.
SportsAFP NewsNBA fines Heat $25,000 for violating bench decorum rules
Having bench players rise and stand just off the edge of the court has brought the NBA's Miami Heat a $25,000 fine.
SportsAFP NewsSagstrom, Shadoff and Vu stay perfect at LPGA Match-Play
Sweden's Madelene Sagstrom, American Lilia Vu and England's Jodi Ewart Shadoff each won her fourth victory in as many matches on Saturday to reach the LPGA Match-Play quarter-finals.
